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Heraclidae

American  
[her-uh-klahy-dee] / ˌhɛr əˈklaɪ di /
Or Heracleidae

noun

  1. a drama (429? b.c.) by Euripides.


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The three seem to be three earliest of the extant plays; they are also—if we count the Heraclidae as mutilated—the three shortest.

From The Rhesus of Euripedes by Euripedes

How much of the air and sun does this form take from the descendant of the Heraclidae?'

From Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The point is clear so far, that Lycurgus himself is said to have lived in the days of the Heraclidae.

From Polity Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Dakyns, Henry Graham

The Heraclidae was undoubtedly written with a similar view in respect to Lacedaemon.

From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John

Such are the main features of the legend of the Return of the Heraclidae.

From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Smith, William, Sir

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